Trent Kelly, Representative for Mississippi's 1st Congressional District

Kelly is the representative for Mississippi’s 1^st congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jun 9, 2015. Kelly is next up for reelection in 2018.

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2017 Report Card for Kelly.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Kelly is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Kelly has sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Americans for Prosperity: 98% FreedomWorks: 95% United States Chamber of Commerce: 85% The Club for Growth: 84% NumbersUSA: 78% The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: C- American Civil Liberties Union: 17% NIAC Action: D Human Rights Campaign: 0% League of Conservation Voters: 0% Planned Parenthood Action Fund: 0%

Committee Membership

Trent Kelly sits on the following committees:

House Committee on Small Business
- Chair, Subcommittee on Investigations, Oversight and Regulations
- Member, Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access
House Committee on Agriculture
- Member, Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry
- Member, Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture
House Committee on Armed Services
- Member, Subcommittee on Military Personnel
- Member, Subcommittee on Readiness
- Member, Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces

Enacted Legislation

Kelly was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

H.R. 5309 (114th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 401 McElroy Drive in Oxford, Mississippi, as the “Army First Lieutenant Donald C. Carwile Post ...

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We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Kelly sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Commerce (38%) Armed Forces and National Security (38%) Government Operations and Politics (25%)

Recent Bills

Some of Kelly’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Kelly’s Vote	Vote Description
Nay	H.R. 1039: Probation Officer Protection Act of 2017 May 19, 2017. Passed 229/177. H.R. 1039 amends the federal criminal code to authorize a probation officer to arrest a person, without warrant, if there is probable cause to believe that person forcibly assaulted or obstructed a probation officer while performing their official duties. The bill also would direct the ...
Nay	H.R. 5602: To amend title 31, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to include all funds when issuing certain geographic targeting orders, and for ... Jul 11, 2016. Passed 356/47.
Nay	H.R. 4889: Kelsey Smith Act May 23, 2016. Failed 229/158.
Aye	H.R. 3038: Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2015, Part II Jul 15, 2015. Passed 312/119.
Not Voting	H.R. 2146: Defending Public Safety Employees’ Retirement Act Jun 18, 2015. Passed 218/208. This vote made H.R. 2146 the vehicle for passage of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal currently being negotiated. H.R. 2146 was originally introduced as a bill to address issues with retirement funds of federal law enforcement officers and firefighters. ...

Missed Votes

From Jun 2015 to Jul 2018, Kelly missed 36 of 2,092 roll call votes, which is 1.7%. This is on par with the median of 2.4% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2015 Apr-Jun	80	26	32.5%	100^th
2015 Jul-Sep	139	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Oct-Dec	177	1	0.6%	31^st
2016 Jan-Mar	137	0	0.0%	0^th
2016 Apr-Jun	204	2	1.0%	32^nd
2016 Jul-Sep	232	0	0.0%	0^th
2016 Nov-Dec	48	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jan-Mar	208	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Apr-Jun	136	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jul-Sep	199	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Oct-Dec	167	2	1.2%	40^th
2018 Jan-Mar	129	3	2.3%	50^th
2018 Apr-Jun	184	2	1.1%	28^th
2018 Jul-Jul	52	0	0.0%	0^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

@unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
GPO Member Guide for the photo
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

Trent Kelly is pronounced:

chrent // KE-lee

The letters stand for sounds according to the following table:

Letter	Sounds As In
CH ch	chin
E e	bed
EE ee	meet
K k	king
L l	leg
N n	not
R r	rag
T t	top

Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.

Rep. Trent Kelly

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